Altaf Hamid Rao,
MIRPUR (AJK): The Kashmir Orphan Relief Trust and Educational Complex Mirpur’ the largest housing-cum-educational complex in South Asia, exclusively meant for the rehabilitation of orphans and shelter-less children, will be sending 11 of its orphan students to perform Umrah on its own expenditures to bless these parents and shelter less innocents with this great glory by the Allah Almighty.
This was announced by the Chairman of the Kashmir Orphan Relief Trust (KORT) Ch. Muhammad Akhter at a news briefing here Tuesday. Members of the Governing Body of KORT including Sheikh Arshad Hussain, Muhammad Shakeel and Ch. Muhammad Hanif (former Chairman MDA) and the ballot-winner lucky orphan students also spoke on this occasion highlighting this great gesture, extended by the management of the KORT.
Akhter said that the nomination of the 11 lucky orphan students including Irfan Batti, Danayal, M. Jabeer, Zain Shabbir, Madasar Bashir, Ariba Khursheed, Syeda Maryam, Khazina Latif, Fiza Hameed, FArzeena Kouser and Ghazal Mahnoor, came through a secret ballot conducted to pick up from about 250 regular male and female students of the recently-constructed mega KORT Educational complex located at Akhter Abad, in outskirt of Mirpur city.
Besides, two of the KORT staffers including Sohail Rasheed and Mrs. Shazia Fazal would also be among those lucky students of the KORT Educational Complex after they also were nominated through secret ballot to perform the greatest blessing of Allah, The Almighty, for visiting His home for performing Umrah.
The Chairman KORT underlined that most of the fortunate students picked up through ballot for performing Umrah are of teen age studying in class 8th and 9thin the KORT educational complex. He underlined that the full expenditures for performing Umrah by these lucky students will be contributed from the general donations provided by philanthropists to the Institution.
KORT was established soon after the deadly earthquake of October 8, 2005 in Azad Jammu Kashmir that left hundreds of children orphan and shelter less. Initially over 150 children of different ages, rendered orphan and shelter less, were housed in the shelter home created single handedly by a UK-based Kashmir origin British young philanthropist Ch. Muhammad Akhter – with the massive fund-raising drive both in AJK and Britain for providing shelter to the victims of the killer earthquake who were rendered homeless and orphans following the death of their parents in the catastrophe.
The KORT has recently completed over Rs. 270 million grand educational and housing complex at Jarri Kass near the city over an area of 250 kanal of land. “In the second phase of the mega project, two separate state of the art 500-bed hostel blocks each would be constructed from orphan boys and orphan girls adjacent to the same location, Ch. Akhter said while responding to questions. The Complex is currently providing quality educational facilities to the Secondary School Certificate level to over 250 orphan inmates of the complex, the largest in entire South East Asia.
Meanwhile, a journalist Ejaz Khaksar of local Daily newspaper was also picked up, through secret ballot during the news briefing, for performing Umrah on the personal expenditures by the KORT founder Ch. Muhammad Akhter, accompanying similar number of the KORT students next year.
